Anglesey photographer Glyn Davies talks about his latest exhibition

The display of images of naked figures in wild landscapes is the result of a three-year project, exploring the fragility and vulnerability of the human form exposed to the elements.

He has his own gallery in Menai Bridge and his work has appeared on TV, and in exhibitions in Vienna, London and Cardiff. We asked him to tell us more about the exhibition and himself

Q Where are you from? Tell us about your family

A Ynys Môn but raised in Cornwall. Both parents are artists who met in Liverpool College of Art where they studied alongside the Beatles! My Mum used to sit next to John Lennon.

Mum is from the Wirral but my Dad is a born and bred Ynys Môn lad from Star. His Dad was a painter and his Uncle was the famous Welsh illustrator, Wilfred Mitford Davies.

My Dad is a retired senior lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the Falmouth School of Art and my mum is a textile designer and ceramist who used to have her own potteries in Cornwall. She also regularly sold her silk paintings to Prince Charles through the Royal Cornwall Show.

They are both retired now of course and live in Y Felinheli but they both still paint and draw every day.

Q What are you best known for? Tell us about your exhibition

A I have become best known for my honest approach to atmospheric and dramatic landscape photography and have won several recognised industry Awards for this work.

In 2011 the Prime Minister bought books of my work as a Royal Wedding present for the Duke &amp; Duchess of Cambridge.I have been ranked No.1 worldwide on the One Eyeland International Showcase for almost 4 years now.

I guess in the last 15 years I have also become known as the director of my photography gallery in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, which was one of the first specialist galleries of its kind in North Wales. I was also the first photographer to ever be offered a solo show in the main gallery of the Oriel Ynys Mon back in 2005 so this second show follows 9 years later.

The show is called Landscape Figures It is being held at the Oriel Ynys Môn Gallery (now also known as the Kyffin Williams Gallery) in Rhosmeirch, Llangefni, Anglesey.

Q When is it running from/to? What can people expect?

a It starts on Saturday August 9 and runs until September 21. This show is a new avenue for my landscape work as it features nudes in the landscape. For just over three years I have spent much of my free time on a major project dealing with the subject of fragility and vulnerability of the human form in wild landscape.

“The models are inexperienced volunteers from the general public, not photographic models, and they were asked to pose completely naked, all forms of protection removed, clothes, boots and equipment so that they became exposed physically and mentally to the elements, but sensually connected to the earth and nature”

There will be fifty large A1 framed Limited Edition prints featuring men and women volunteers in this huge show.

Q What’s next for you? What are you working on, or what do you plan to work on?

A I will be continuing with this project and I have visioned several new routes which the same genre could lead me to, incorporating nudes within different contexts.

This exhibition I am really keen to turn into an ebook and limited edition hard backed book, and I think crowd sourcing is the way to go on that one.

I am just about to launch my original book from 2007, “Anglesey Landscapes 1” as a digital e-book for download worldwide, and I may do the same with my other three books.

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